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Like the idea behind services like Uber, Lyft, and all the other "sharing economy" apps? Give a listen to "Instaserfs", a three-episodes show from the "Theory Of Everything" podcast, and get a feel for what its like to be one of those services' "independant contrators".

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Panic has updated Diet Coda to 2.0, calling it "Coda for iOS", and its a hell of an updated! Works on iPhones and iPads, a full featured SSH client, local and remote file managers, sync your sites with your desktop app... and all for ten bucks! Or if you already have Diet Coda, its a free update O_O

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This is a new patch to cover issues discovered since the patch last week. If you have Flash version 18.0.0.203 or earlier (and if you haven't patched today, you do), its highly recommended you update your version now.

Alex Stamos, the recently appointed chief security officer at Facebook, has called on software company Adobe to announce an "end-of-life date for Flash." It probably has a lot to do with the newly discovered 0-day attack, just days after the last one was discovered and patched.

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The vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2015-5119 and is active in Flash versions 18.0.0.194 and earlier. Users who rely on Flash should install the update immediately... and may also want to experiment with uninstalling Flash altogether.